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2cm Two inches up here already!

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41 minutes ago, Ross B said:

I'm not expecting any snow but the rain has just turned to sleet here with temperature starting to fall. 3c at the moment. 

Just had a similar slide. Down from 3.5C and rain to 1.8C and snow.

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Sad to see the remnants of our snow up here disappear in the strong sun BUT......what a joy to have an actual, ACTUAL dry day! Nothing falling from the sky, and with a steady reduction of the snowpack through sublimation rather than a torrential rain-induced thaw. Lucky to have the day off and so walked from the door for a 6hr jaunt around the Lomonds

 

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Wet snow froze overnight and left us with 3cm up here, but it disappears about 50m lower down the hill. We also dipped below freezing (-0.5C) last night, which really shouldn't be newsworthy, but this is a winter when we've only had FIVE air frosts!! Usually well into the 20s and 30s. Very odd.

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Ooo, temp still falling and it’s definitely starting to settle. It was rain an hour ago.

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Temp fallen 0.5C in last ten minutes and now wet snow.

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9 minutes ago, edo said:

Not even sleety mess... Just heavy rain... 

Winter 19/20

I’ve got your sleety mess up here. 1.9C.

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1 hour ago, shuggee said:

How cute is she! Looks right at home. 

That park is full of hippos for some weird reason!

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Just had 50mph winds whip up out of nowhere. Amazing noise, you can hear it building. 

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The town park in Glenrothes this afternoon. Never seen it like this, and our hill road is flooded in places I have never seen flood before either.

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Approaching 2cm up here in the space of about 20 mins. 

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Snowing and settling here, 1.9C.

Surprised to find that the weather station recorded a max sustained speed of 57.1mph and a gust of 63.1mph at 00:45....which is stronger than either Ciara or Dennis. Not sure how I managed to sleep through that!

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15 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Turned the idiot box off just to sit and listen.

Ha ha! Me too!!

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10 minutes ago, 101_North said:

For all the 'storms' of late tonight is the first with the wind really ratting round the house. Gusts of about 50mph so nothing out of the ordinary but sounds wild!

Yep there are some very odd noises I've not heard before! And the security light keeps coming on. Currently 45mph gusting 55mph.

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Drizzle, 2.4C, slushy 7cm remaining. Got down to -1.6C last night so the coldest since 2018.

edit, oops, just realised we had -3.5C on 1st Feb 2019!

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25 minutes ago, Northern Strath said:

Heavy snow this morning, don’t think it had stopped much at all through the night, pic from first thing

 

28cms cover. Showers through first part of the day. After a bit of a dig, we followed the blue skies down to Laggan

Tired the dog out on the way home up above Aviemore, snow knee deep in parts. Dying light but great conditions. Hope people get a snow fix tomo morning 

Lovely! Always seems a bit of a waste when you don’t get the blue skies after a heavy fall. That’s my only gripe with March 2018. Sooooooo bloody grey!

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Some more pics from this morning in the Lomond Hills. Just the most sublime colours at sunrise. We had 12cm this morning, sunny all day except for a slight freshening up in the afternoon, now -0.7C and crazy icy on the road.

 

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37 minutes ago, Benvironment said:

Gawd, since when? I've had a truly uncharacteristic TWO since 1st December!

Strike that. We’ve just gone down to -0.1C!!

<faints>

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28 minutes ago, shuggee said:

 

Currently -0.4C. So that's my twenty fifth air frost.

Gawd, since when? I've had a truly uncharacteristic TWO since 1st December!

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The Lomonds by torchlight this evening. The sound....the smell.....the cold.....breathing clouds into the torchlight. Oh it's heaven!

As expressed by other folk, delighted to finally see snow in the lang toun! !

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Some piccies from work in West Lothian today. Suffice to say it wasn't the most productive day I've had  

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A wet 9cm here now.....but also up to 1.4C and feeling more marginal in anything other than the heavy stuff.

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Parked up when I got home.....and just sat there in the car for a bit. Mesmerising to watch

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2cm on the ground up here. Currently 1.1C.

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6 minutes ago, jason6347 said:

Hi I’ve got a few days off so I’m heading up to Scotland in the search for some white stuff,not sure where best to head,fort William,was thinking with it being more in the west,is it high up there.or was looking at Aviemore,will that still get the showers from the west as it is a bit further east..Any recommendations would be appreciated 

                                          Cheers jason

 

What are the chances of the A82 being open tomorrow? does it close a lot due to snow? I am thinking of going to the Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe

 

They're pretty good at keeping that open.....but plan for the worst just in case. Sleeping bag, spade, food and wotnot  Gawd I haven't had to carry all that stuff for years. Used to carry it around in the car boot as standard when driving about the highlands and Perthshire in winter, and needed some or all of that kit once or twice. Still a good idea in colder spells.

PS - 62mph now.